how to *completely* remove a package from the cmd line?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  more than once, i've wanted to remove every trace of an installed
package, and i always thought that "purge" was the way to do it but
even after i've done:

  $ sudo apt-get purge <package>

dpkg still sees it with a status of "rc".  if, however, i go into
synaptic and mark it for complete removal and apply, then it's truly
gone.  so what am i missing from the command line to get the same
effect?

rday

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